*UPDATE* Post #24 Sounds kinda like a yipping hyena?

[WooingWyandotte]

Every night I go to sleep with yipping/stupid coyotes. Coyotes are pretty much everywhere.

 

[1livelychick]

I'll bet coyotes. My border Collies will stop in their tracks if they hear them yipping...turn their head all different ways as if trying to understand the coyote language! SCARY!

 

[ChikeeMomma]

Yup, foxes or coyotes would live in a nice town like Ann Arbor. They are everywhere! I saw a video of two foxes yipping/making a raucous with each other in the middle of an intersection of a English town. They didn't mind the cars driving around them or the people on the streets. They were too concerned with one another.

 

[Carrie Lynn]

UPDATE

I went on youtube this morning to listen to more fox/coyote vocalizations.
I clicked on a post with eerie night sounds and that was exactly what I'd heard on 2 occasions.
I was horrified when a viewer identified the sounds as those made by a rabbit being eaten! There are some rabbits in the neighborhood and I'm assuming a raccoon got them as they ate fallen birdseed. I hate that coons eat their prey alive, I don't want any animal to suffer.

Well, thanks to all for your advice and insight. I appreciate you taking the time to help solve this mystery. I'll be sure to lock my hens up securely every night!

Carrie Lynn

 

[Newbie in Screamer Al]

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[Achickenwrangler#1]

nature can seem awfully cruel sometimes can't it, you might want to check owl sounds as well, they can be rather eerie too,

 

[melodie_a]

Rabbits make an awful sound when they are terrified. We had a house rabbit that kept opening the rabbit cage at night and getting out, one night my husband had fallen asleep in his recliner and the rabbits got out. He heard her running around the chair and since she was very difficult to catch he waited until she ran beside the chair and just reached down and snatched her up real quick. I think that she didn't realize that he was there because all the lights were off because she let out a scream that woke me up in the back bedroom. I didn't know what was going on. It surprised hubby so bad he dropped her...lol.

I have NEVER heard a sound like that before... scary, scary.